The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-03-26
FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS
HApEN AND HIS DOGS.


ItWas in the August OF 1919. In tia'
part of the country now known as Ala
bama, there came to the settlers who
had made their homes near where the
Alabama and Tombigbee rivers meet
ON a beautiful summer day, news which
filled them with CONSERVATION. The
second war with Great Britain was
going on, and British agents had at last
persuaded the Greek Indians to join
them. These Creeks were half-civilized.
but as savage in their mode of warfare
as the most barbarous' tribes. To be
allies of Great Britain meant to destroy
all the white settlements in the South
: est.
the S0th of August-and this is a
"a = history-John Wilson, a set
. !, =. ia Tombigbee, rode rapidly up
.lei 81 ~ His wife, who was she'll
ing peas on the po. en- '00Ae' W - ~
constituent. ..... Tohr o.,
"Wbat ON earth is the m ''e ! :. So ,ra.d
she cried. "Where's the loA> y 49,
you and Harry went for7' 81
Don't worry about load Of w. -
Milly," he said; and looking at him.
she saw he was troubled and anxious.
you've got to think Of something be-
sides wood. Harry'll be here in mso-
ute. Get little Molly ready, and pack
up what food there 10 in. the house
nothing else. We must get away from
here in few minutes. Them red devils
is let loose again.
"The injuns!'' she faltered, turning
white with terror
Eyes. they've jined the Britishers.
Red Eagle has taken Fort Minis. He
had athotisand warriors. and our people
fought for five hours desperately. 1t
wasn't Of any use. though. Five hum
dred MEN, women and children were
inassacred. Our turn will come next,
if we stay here. You must hurry.
Here's Harry. We're going to the stock
ade at Sinquefied, and must get there
before night. Ike Haden is going with
us"
+ "What will he do with his sixty
houndsP" Mrs. Wilson asked, ~ she
made her scanty preparations, and tied
Molly's sun-bonnet over her tangled
white locks.
well, reckon he'd sooner stay
and take his chances with the savages
than part with one Of them. He's a
good boy, but them fierce brutes Of his
are nuisance sometimes. They would
tear man to mince-meat before he
could say Jack Robinson If Ike told
'em to do it. But he keeps them in
order, / must say, and they'rs handy in
getting up the neighbour stock, and
killing wild meat when we're short of
food. Come, it's time to be off,"
As the Wilson family moved rapidly
through the settlement, they were
joined by other families, and among
them by Ike Haden, stalwart young
man, with q bronzed face and keen
blue eyes. His army of dogs was with
him, almost filing up the road. Not a
single white soul was left in the settle
ment by ten o'clock that morning. The
way was clear, for not an Indian was
seen, and near sunset the travellers
were within two miles of the fort.
There the team of the Hood family gave
out. 1t was large family, numbering
seventeen, mostly women and children,
and old William Hood proposed camp
ing there for the night. YOU'D better
not, Neighbor Hood. ;" Ike Haden said
to him. 1T would be safer to push
those animals little further. They'll
hold out for two miles, reckon.
You'll get to the fort late, but I'll stay
behind with you till we get there. y
There isn't bit of danger here, !"
Hood answered. my cattle are dead
beat. and I'm dead beat myself. We
amt seed a trail of the Injuns since we
started. and we're 80 near the fort that
/ feel just as safe as il was there"
ssBut half mile from 3 fort, with
Indians around, is as bad as twenty, !"
persisted Ike Haden. "Don't be SO
stubborn, Neighbor Hood, with all
these women and children on your
hands,"
lyon needn't talk about bein' stub
born, young man. Hood answered,
angrily. "We've all talked enough to
you about them rsvenin' wolves you've
got yelpin' around Why, man, I'd as
soon be brute myself as consort with
'em as you do. That was the way with
your father before you. That's the
reason he didn't have nothin' to leave
you but them brutes. Farm, stock,
every thing, melted away in keepin' up
his pack"
1--WE heard that q thousand times,
Neighbor Hood" Haden answered,
with a hot, angry flush on his dark
cheeks, ''and don't like it any better
l from hearing IL En- often. It's an nm